| Show iiiiijiN or A nuMim Mr William U Curtis In n letter to the Chicago Record hll a capital story Illustrating the way take stories are circulating He traces to an elevator boy the first report that word had COle from Admlrnl Dwey term Is I the ntorv n The tulltv at human lnd I wo nho strikIngly Illustrated at the capitol today when It was announced by den Hawley In the Senate committee on mlltary Affairs and by Col steele In the lIollse committee that Admiral Dcey report bad ben received lu cipher nod 10 at that moment being translated at the navy department Inrt or II bd alrdy reached the Postdent hands the a tory raid ant ho had excused himself him-self from on Interview 1 I Ith a cooslltu ont ot Hrpreentatl Smith ot llllnol In order tht he might give the Mtttr Us attention There s ere write akepUe In the lIouse and they taurted Col Steele until he went over to the Senate Sen-ate to nee Mr Fairbanks from whom lie had obtained the Information Mr Fairbanks said that he did not get It from the President direct butt but-t Mr Hannawho knew nil bout It Mn ILA A tie being found explained that he had not seen the President this morning although lie had heard the report re-port mil believed It to be true for his authority was no less I a person than Vice President Hobart lly that time everybody In the capital had the Information Infor-mation There was no doubt nbout 110 It Was bulletined to Wall street and to every commercial exchange throughout he country and peelol telegram 1th explanatory comments were sent to every evening nwepnper but lhen the searchers after truth got nn opportunity oppor-tunity to call the Vice President out ot the hoJr they dleoverd thnto he had not en rthe President this mornIng morn-Ing and had only repeated to Mr HAnn iv hat he had learned tram the elevator hay At last the fountain head was reached The elevator boy being put through it 1 course at quetlonln explained ex-plained hat he had not heard anything on the subject from the White House or from any other source hut remembered remem-bered having remarked to the Vice 1ldent its the latter Went ur In his private car that he supposed by this line dispatches had been received from Admiral Dewey and that the clerks In tho nIIy deportment were probably tranolatlng them IIIc doet fobulo lIow easy It Is I to be misled by goool men |
